Other questions and a used book

After two years, the artist Fernanda J. Carregado presents the continuation of her work “The sea by car ”, an autobiographical project where she was accompanied by 6 photographers to cover this experience. She returns to this theme with great perspective in a continuation of her work titled : “Others issues and a used book ”, issues that were left in the pipeline in order to close such an intimate and significant story for the artist.

He presents a work where he focuses on life issues according to his personal reflections, but while remaining open to many interpretations considering all these universal themes where viewers can feel identified.

Another five new photographer artists have collaborated on this project, adding 11 artists who are part of this story, all important to weaving this project.

The artist invites you to learn about other questions that you may be able to ask yourself and to feel yourself walking alongside her in these thoughts that she has prepared in a used book.

To anyone who wants

be better every day.

Sincere reflections, I get the impression that you stop looking at your navel, to delve deeper inside, and really be sincere and recognize the truth of your desires, some achievable, and others that are not so much... but nothing happens if you don't realize them. they get. _'Nothing important is happening', if we recognize ourselves with our failures, faults, we must be modest, feel and be sincere, be empathetic, kind, with our differences, and not demand more from ourselves than it is possible to fulfill, and thus we avoid feeling frustrated. _You should not demand too much, most of the time it is absurd. _Very common ideals for many of us, but very complicated to carry out. _It is time to be honest, in order to recognize the differences, and that the simple, without a doubt, is what makes you grow the most and helps you recognize... _Project, which has 11 light sculpture pieces, seen through the lens of 10 other photographer artists . The textile works are also interesting, complementary to the sculptures.

Nando Arguelles

Exhibition curator

July, 2024

Other issues in the pipeline

1.-We laugh

Making our feelings and emotions flourish is a responsibility, laughing at ourselves is necessary to look at ourselves with love. We have the obligation to feel, cry, laugh, get angry and be sad if necessary. Don't let anyone convince you otherwise. Forget about people who want to encourage you, worry you, or try to change an emotion you need to feel. It is very useful to know what you need and not be influenced by anyone.

JUST TALK TO THE WIND

Ilse Van Gogh

Hahnemühle Matt Fiber Photo Paper

Digital photography - Measurement: A3 - Handmade ceramic frame

Piece I Anahí and her hat

Details ceramic sculpture Anahí and her hat.

2.-Become a friend of change

Trying to give up the fight for something that no longer has to be in your life. When we create a private war exclusively for your little world, we don't understand that in the end you always lose. If you let go, something better comes. I know! It's easy to say, I know! When you are in your private war you don't want to let go of the fight. You keep your blindness, you just want it to be as you expect, this being foolish. You will leave that blindness whenever you want, no one can tell you what to do, it is your exclusive fight. Changes are the desire to grow, change, improve yourself and your environment. Make friends with the idea that things will be as they should be, trying to do only what corresponds to you and letting the change appear.

Lucia Villar

Hahnemühle Photo Rag Ultra Smooth Photo Paper

Digital photography - Measurement: A3 - Handmade ceramic frame

Piece II Lía's headdress

Detail of black clay piece Lía's headdress

3.-Extraordinary defects

Know which defects to change and which ones not to change. Just change what doesn't let you be happy and look kindly at the rest. If I look very closely I will find things I don't like about myself. It is important to look at ourselves with love and try to accept some defects that do not change in us over the years. There are defects that must remain, we must let go a little and relax the idea of thinking that we must be impeccable. Of course we are going to change! But I think the smart thing is to change the defects that limit us and laugh at the rest for a while. Be comfortable under our skin and understand that we must talk to ourselves throughout our lives. If you want to fight with yourself, just try to be unbeatable, but you will never win the war. If you want to fight with the rest of the world, try to please humanity, it never rains to everyone's liking, for this you will also be defeated.

Fernanda J. Carregado

Judith Borobio embossed paper collaboration

Hahnemühle Photo Rag untextured photographic paper.

Digital photography - Measurement: A3 - Handmade ceramic frame

Piece III Mara's headdress

Porcelain sculpture details Mara's headdress.

4.-Simple things
Don't lose your amazement with the simple things in life, live gratefully. That modest part where you only need to stop and contemplate and that we should not overlook. A hot shower, a sunny afternoon, a soft bed, a piece of bread. Be grateful for the simple, enjoy things that you believe are there because they should be, stop taking them for granted, because that normality can bring out your most ungrateful side.

David Burbano

Title: Pain

Matt Fiber Photo Paper 200 G/m2

Digital photography intervened with spray paint. Measurement: A3 - Handmade ceramic frame

Piece IV Pedro and his hat

Detail of porcelain piece Pedro and his hat

5.-The friendly part

Look at people with kind eyes, do not position yourself on an idea and make it yours, understand other positions to learn. Look at the beautiful part of the people you meet, look at the good side, practice being kind with your eyes. Neutralize your opinion and get out of your position. You will grow more by seeing another way of seeing things, rather than just your own. It is very good that we look differently, that there are many different opinions, so we can try to understand each other and enrich our vision of things.

Antonio Morales

Title: Flora

Fujifilm Silk Photo Paper

Digital photography - Measurement: A3 - Handmade ceramic frame

Piece V The headdress of Zebensui

Details of ceramic piece The Zebensui headdress

To my great aunts

Summers in Buenos Aires in Lanús, my great aunts' house lifting tiles looking for worms and playing in the backyard. They made me tea with powdered milk and crackers for a snack, the two seamstresses, in their kitchen the pedal-operated Singer sewing machines and denim fabrics with which they made me some crafts. My aunt Esther always asked me, do you want me to draw something for you? She drew women's faces with long eyelashes and 1950s hairstyles, pretty faces that were in fashion when she was young and that she doodled repeatedly to entertain me. The emotional thing about those summers that faded are those images embroidered in my mind to this day, without realizing it, those women with hairstyles from the 50s are still alive for me and so are my great aunts.

These embroideries inspired by women carry vessels on their heads, a task that was assigned to women before there was running water in homes. Drinks and food were moved from one place to another in this way with a padded cloth thread that was placed above the head that served to support and cushion heavy weights. On that support, baskets, cauldrons, jugs and other objects that required a perfect balance, so they could have their arms free to be able to carry more things with them.

We continue to put things on our heads, currently hats and headdresses on special occasions, it is no longer a primary need but a mere decoration, these pieces that I have dedicated several years to making represented a progression of something very intimate and personal, helping me in difficult moments, using them as an escape that finally resulted in this compendium of ideas titled THE SEA BY CAR and added to this OTHER ISSUES AND A USED BOOK.

This union of the 50s, of my experiences through a hat from 2016 until today and this a heavy feminine task that was to carry water on the head through a bun, the sum of these three issues is amalgamated in these pieces embroidered in He loves my great aunts.

Fernanda J. Carregado July, 2024

Jars on the head

We are so used to having nothing more to do than turn on the tap to get water and having the opportunity to choose whether you want it hot or cold that we have a hard time thinking about the thousands of years in which this luxury did not exist. Water was an absolutely essential resource that people had to go look for wherever it was: a spring, a river, a well or a fountain. It was not only necessary for drinking but also for cooking, washing, washing or putting out a fire. Today, pots are still worn on the head in many places that lack running water such as Eritrea, Papua New Guinea, Uganda, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, Angola, Chad. Be grateful for simple things like a shower of water in the morning, be grateful for simple things that life gives us

Conclusions

Artistic production is essential for me to dialogue with my emotions, and it also serves my need to communicate them to others. This is the best place to create what I have created surrounded by colleagues. Protect these moments because in memories you build a better future from the experience. Art is the highest form of faith and hope because you can turn your thoughts into action. It is an opportunity to get to know yourself through experimenting with materials and seeing the synergy between them and you.

Thanks

Mara Correa Benitez. Ilse Van Gogh. Lucia Villar. David Burbano. Anahí Ortiz. Tejeira Antonio Morales. Judith Borobio. Lía Urdaneta. Zebensui Morales Galvàn.

To my great aunts Esther and Ñata.

To the causality that allowed me to cross paths with them.